Bloggie Awards

March 11, 2003 3:48 PM

MetaFilter has won a Bloggie for "best group or community weblog". And mathowie must be happy that Kottke won his lifetime achievement award.
posted by timeistight to MetaFilter-related at 3:48 PM (29 comments total)

Quadruples all round!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 3:51 PM on March 11, 2003

That will teach me for searching to make sure that this had not been posted already - you beat me by a few minutes!

Congrats to mathowie for the award, maybe he can spend the $20.03 on some more RAM for the server or something ;-)

Who the hell is this kottke guy anyway? I simply do not understand the adoration that follows him everywhere. I must be missing something. Whatever.
posted by dg at 3:57 PM on March 11, 2003

I feel I contributed, in my own way, to our overall loss.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 4:05 PM on March 11, 2003

yeah, we kicked Fark's ass
That's something to be proud of, right?

MetaFilter -- Better Than Fark

it's like, "nicer than Dick Cheney".
posted by matteo at 4:57 PM on March 11, 2003

loobylu wins best design...? sure her drawings are adorable but her actual layouts are like brown paper bags... pretty utilitarian, not much effort.

oh well, i have to admit i have a negative attitude towards web site awards that mimic real life awards. they seem so silly and i end up feeling somewhat embarrassed for everyone involved.
posted by t r a c y at 5:12 PM on March 11, 2003

So Fark won "Best Weblog About Politics"? Jesus.

Oh well, at least Matt got $20.03 out of the deal.
posted by UKnowForKids at 5:24 PM on March 11, 2003

...i have to admit i have a negative attitude towards web site awards that mimic real life awards.

and what real life awards would those be? mother, brother, convenience store clerk of the year?

congrats matt! (and others)
posted by poopy at 6:19 PM on March 11, 2003

Oh well, at least Matt got $20.03 out of the deal.

...and a book on blogging!
posted by timeistight at 6:51 PM on March 11, 2003

Given that Metafilter is a community website (admittedly largely aided by Matt's guiding hand), I demand that the Andrew Jackson be split among all 17,000 members.
posted by Stan Chin at 6:54 PM on March 11, 2003

Pro-rated by the contribution idex.
posted by timeistight at 6:55 PM on March 11, 2003

I demand that the Andrew Jackson be split

I agree. But Matt should keep the 3 cents as bonus. he's the site's creator after all
posted by matteo at 7:18 PM on March 11, 2003

And yet, I dunno, something in me tells me a blogging-for-beginners manual is perhaps not the most desirable prize after a year's hard blogging.

Matteo - you're all heart!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 7:20 PM on March 11, 2003

..and I 'lost'.

Unleash the hounds!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:05 PM on March 11, 2003

Congratulations, Matt. 'Preciate all the effort.
posted by vito90 at 8:06 PM on March 11, 2003

and what real life awards would those be? mother, brother, convenience store clerk of the year?

Industry or professional awards come to mind. Web awards just seem more trivial than others. There's something desperate about them if you don't consider internet hobbies to be on par with "real life" endeavors. Besides that the winners are usually nowhere near as interesting as the sites that most people don't know about. High traffic is almost never synonymous with high quality.
posted by zarah at 8:15 PM on March 11, 2003

Besides that the winners are usually nowhere near as interesting as the sites that most people don't know about. High traffic is almost never synonymous with high quality.

oscars, grammys, yadda...

my take: it's fun, not to be taken too seriously.
posted by poopy at 8:21 PM on March 11, 2003

Pro-rated by the contribution idex.

Versely
or inversely?
posted by Opus Dark at 8:32 PM on March 11, 2003

Versely, but we subtract the number of MeTa posts/comments.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 8:42 PM on March 11, 2003

my take: it's fun, not to be taken too seriously.

yah you're right, i should go with that attitude.

now i can tell people i took some poopy advice and it worked out ok. or something like that 8-)
posted by t r a c y at 8:47 PM on March 11, 2003

For those taking their ACTs/SATs:

Fark is to politics as

Metafilter is to community.

Ouch.
posted by skallas at 9:46 PM on March 11, 2003

Hey, Skallas - that is ouch - even for those of us who like Fark.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 9:54 PM on March 11, 2003

I always suspected that Matt was in this for the money.
posted by jonson at 10:45 PM on March 11, 2003

Matt can buy some pancake mix. hehe
Congrats Matt.
posted by bjgeiger at 1:10 AM on March 12, 2003

so am i , lend me a tenner jonson.
posted by sgt.serenity at 6:03 AM on March 12, 2003

As the presenter, I tried to pocket the check since Matt wasn't present to collect. I was going to share. really.
posted by whatnot at 7:55 AM on March 12, 2003

I heard rumors that they were rigged, but never saw any evidence. Anyone know more about this?

(not to denigrate MeFi's win; this is a wonderful site, and Matt should be proud. See, all that hard work -- four years of work for $20.03 -- really pays off!)
posted by Vidiot at 9:55 AM on March 12, 2003

Congratulations, Matt. Vidiot, I also heard that MeFi had precisely 17144 votes. Funny, isn't it?
(seriously though-- and offtopic-- who are the five new users? I remember not so long ago there were 17139 people here, and even with the "membership is again closed" thing still going on, five new accounts showed up. Who are they?)
posted by 111 at 11:32 AM on March 12, 2003

Since mathowietest2003 was the first one, I'd venture that mathowie has manually added some deserving people.
posted by timeistight at 11:40 AM on March 12, 2003

111, user 17144 is Wacom. Let's give her a rousing, pancake overlord welcome!!!
posted by billsaysthis at 5:54 PM on March 12, 2003